Manuscript maker, Thomas Keyes, is seeking to collaborate with a Gaelic writer and apply for a Colmcille 1500 Legacy Award. More information here.
Duais Dìleab Chaluim Chille / The Colmcille Legacy Award
Duais Dìleab Chaluim Chille / The Colmcille Legacy Award, is a small national award scheme created in partnership by Bòrd na Gàidhlig and the Culture, Heritage and Arts Assembly, Argyll and Isles (CHARTS) to commemorate the life and cultural legacy of Colmcille throughout the Year of Colmcille, 1500.
The project offers monthly arts awards and online exhibition to profile and support Gaelic artists work, aligned to themes of Colmcille. For information about Year of Colmcille, see: https://colmcille.net/ This is a digital project to meet social distancing challenges presented by the impacts of Covid-19 at the time of the launch of Colmcille 1500.
Awards are designed to support work which celebrates, remembers and interprets the role of Colmcille in the past and in contemporary society. Aiming to support a variety of work across arts media, artists are invited to submit proposals to support the development of new work, or highlight existing work, linked to the life and legacy of Colmcille.
This project will celebrate Gaelic arts and culture using a range of arts media and themes related to Colmcille, which can be shown to advantage in an electronic media, online, context.
Applicants should note that two award types are available:
- Up to 18 arts awards will be made to artists living in Scotland
- A single heritage award will be made to artist/s living in Argyll and Bute region only
We aim to offer at least one award at each selection stage to a young person, aged between 16-26 years.
Application deadlines
Heritage Award – July 31st 2020
Arts Awards – This is a rolling programme, running until 2021. You may apply at any time. Up to 18 awards will be made in total.
Full details on the CHARTS website here.
Here is artist Catriona Patience who received funding for a new art project from the Colmcille Legacy Award by CHARTS (funded by Bòrd na Gàidhlig).
Céilí na nGael | Cèilidh nan Gàidheal
Fàilte oirbh don chiad Cèilidh nan Gàidheal air loidhne far an coinnich luchd-labhairt na Gàidhlig is na Gaeilge air Zoom airson beagan ceòl, cainnt is craic fhaighinn còmhla ann an cànain nan Gàidheal.
09/09/20. 8f. Cleachd an ceangal seo airson faighinn a-steach ann. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7717224360.
Ma tha sibh dìreach airson coimhead, rach dhan duilleag www.facebook.com/colmcille1500
Fáilte go dtí an chéad Céilí na nGael ar líne ina mbuailfidh cainteoirí Gàidhlig agus Gaeilge le chéile ar Zoom le haghaidh roinnt ceoil, cainte agus craic sna teangacha Gaelacha.
09/09/20. 8pm. Bain úsáid an nasc seo chun rochtain a fháil air https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7717224360.
Mura dteastaíonn uait ach féachaint, téigh chuig an suíomh
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Columba – The Faith of an Island Soldier
The book “Columba – Faith of an Island Soldier” by Bruce Ritchie was published last year. Here is a short video about the work.
Modern Bards: Tiding it into Port
Earagail Arts Festival, Colmcille & Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde present… Modern Bards: Tiding it into Port.
Come join us on the waves in the festival currach. Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde will be on the oars steering the way. Together we’ll voyage with poets and artists from both Irish and Scottish shores. A multidisciplinary online celebration of the sea we share and the art that unites us. A seafaring journey of poetry with Rona Dhòmhnallach, Máire Dinny Wren, Gillebrìde MacMillan and Rody Gorman together with the artist Kim Sharkey. Join us online on this poetic voyage on our little boat.
Earagail Arts Festival, Donegal’s premier summer event brings you a re-imagined condensed festival of Srutháin (Small Streams), 9th to 26th July, an 18-day line-up of online and radio performances, interactive arts, masterclasses, and nomadic pop-up theatre.
